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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Civil Liberties: Free to Be You and Me (The History of the Women's Rights Movement, The Rights of Women, and Reproductive Rights).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ginsburg think about the schools that openly take race into consideration when looking at student applications?
(a) They should lose any and all public funding.
(b) They are apprehensible.
(c) They are preferable to those that conceal it.
(d) They are worse than the schools who secretly take race into consideration.

2. The few women who braved law school in the 1950s and 1960s, it was generally supposed, presented what, regarding men?
(a) Many questions that must be answered regarding the role of women in law.
(b) No real challenge or competition.
(c) A threat to the role of all women.
(d) A real challenge for male students.

3. For what does Justice Ginsburg consistently call?
(a) An interpretation of the Constitution that regards all people equally before the law.
(b) An upheaval of the laws as they were known and understood at the time.
(c) A reinforcement of the law as it was first written.
(d) A conservative stance regarding the Constitution.

4. What is the reason that Ginsburg gives for why the press seldom talks about the high level of agreement among all of the justices?
(a) The justices rarely agree.
(b) Only the truth mattered to the press.
(c) Agreement is kind of boring.
(d) They do not pay much attention to the judiciary branch.

5. According to Ginsburg, when did our Constitution get perfected in regard to equality?
(a) After the Vietnam War.
(b) After World War I.
(c) After the Civil War.
(d) After the War of 1812.

Short Answer Questions

1. In argument among the judges, what does not take place?

2. Unlike Ginsburg’s ancestors in their exodus from Egypt, we must rely on what?

3. According to Ginsburg, a great man once said that the symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle but what?

4. According to Ginsburg, if one is to be a lawyer and just practice one's profession, one is very much like what other field?

5. Why should the courts stay out of the business of evaluating the merits of religious groups?

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